Wes Benedict posts at Last Free Voice

You can view the entire cover letter and resume in PDF format by clicking here.
Additional links to Wes Benedict’s work:
Libertarian Party of Texas
Wes Benedict’s LNC blog
FreeLibertarianStickers.com
Wes Benedict for County Commissioner
Wes Benedict’s Letter to Bill Redpath:
Dear Chair Redpath:
In order to make it better, I would like to serve as the [...]

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Libertarian Party National Chairman Bill Redpath has some harsh words for the $300 billion proposed measure to “stabilize” the housing market: “The bill is an atrocity, pure and simple,” says Redpath. “[It] creates more regulation, more government and more mess, all with the taxpayer on the hook. In the end, the government will have spent [...]

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“Today on Morning Joe,” writes Lew Rockwell, “we had Scarborough belligerently justifying US prison camps in Cuba and elsewhere. ‘Habeas corpus was invented for American citizens,’ he said. ‘Next you’ll be wanting free speech for Danes.’
“Leaving aside the long English history of habeas corpus, which Blackstone traces to 1305, Scarborough reflects the alarming conservative belief [...]

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Long-time libertarian activist and party member Chris Bennett says he is leaving the Libertarian Party and will allow his national membership dues to lapse in January. Bennett was an early candidate for the LP’s vice-presidential nomination but dropped out before the convention. He was also a candidate for the Boston Tea Party’s VP slot, but [...]

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IPR has received reports from reliable sources that Libertarian Party Chairman Bill Redpath is “highly upset” with Sean Haugh over the Massachusetts petition burning scandal, and has taken “appropriate steps” to ensure something of that nature won’t happen again. Well, according to a well-known petition gatherer — who admittedly has bad blood with Mr. Haugh [...]

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I first received this several weeks ago. At that time George asked me to hold off on posting it. I note it has now been published at Last Free Voice.
Phillies Statement to the Massachusetts State Committee
(Edited from the May LPMass Minutes)
Last week I spent eight days in scenic Denver at our libertarian party national convention. [...]

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Curiously, although the Gun Owners of America takes a much more hardcore position on the gun issue which is far more in line with the LP platform (yes, even after Portland and Denver), this press release quotes the much more milquetoastish, reliable Republican sycophants at the NRA instead. GOA created the F- category in its [...]

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June 30, 2008
FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY:
We worked with Rich Heller on the DC LP ballot access drive in 2004. He stepped in and paid us, and also personally petitioned with us, after the DC LP had no one else up to the task.
Dear Libertarian,
Last week, we had a great victory in the battle to protect [...]

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Libertarian Party National Chairman Bill Redpath reportedly called Angela Keaton, an outspoken member of the Libertarian National Committee, and told her to “act like a responsible committee member or resign” her post at the LNC.
Keaton’s response to Redpath:
Mr. Redpath, learn your place in the movement. Do not call, write or speak to me unless [...]

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According to Ballot Access News, Libertarian Party National Chairman Bill Redpath has submitted petitions with 16,000 signatures to run for U.S. Senate in Virgina. Ten thousand valid signatures are required to appear on the Virginia ballot.
Redpath will be vying for the open Senate seat against Republican Jim Gilmore, Democrat Mark Warner, and Independent-Green Glenda Gail [...]

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